NYT has a public api that can be used to track some so-called "stealth edits". Full text is not supported, but the API has endpoints that provide headlines, abstracts, lead paragraphs, and article word counts.
Everything should work. Headlines that do not appear to have changed are resulting in different MD5 hashes and being duplicated in database. I will fix that at some point.
- why are some articles/edits missing?
- The tracker uses the Archive endpoint, which is only updated three times per day (around 3:30PT, 11:30PT, and 19:30PT). Articles can be published and edited before the tracker sees them. If you do not like this, build your own. It takes like 15 minutes.
article info:
- article_id
- 1b867814-67d9-5d5e-8af4-78b6b215c570
- pub_date
- 2022-08-16 07:55:26
- section_name
- World
- document_type
- article
- web_uri
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/world/middleeast/austin-tice-journalist-syria.html
history:
version: 2022-08-16 19:45:05
10 Years After Disappearing in Syria, Freedom Is Elusive for U.S. Journalist
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
There are signs that efforts to free Austin Tice, who disappeared in Syria in 2012 and who the U.S. believes is being held by the Syrian government, are reviving. But his family says the U.S. needs to do more.
BEIRUT — Ten years after the American journalist Austin Tice disappeared in Syria as the country descended into a brutal civil war, and was believed to have been held captive by the government of President Bashar al-Assad since, his release still remains elusive.
word count: 1211
version: 2022-08-17 03:45:04
10 Years After Disappearing in Syria, Freedom Is Elusive for U.S. Journalist
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
There are signs that efforts to free Austin Tice, who disappeared in Syria in 2012 and who the U.S. believes is being held by the Syrian government, are reviving. But his family says the U.S. needs to do more.
BEIRUT — Ten years after the American journalist Austin Tice disappeared in Syria as the country descended into a brutal civil war, and was believed to have been held captive by the government of President Bashar al-Assad since, his release still remains elusive.
word count: 1211
version: 2022-08-17 11:45:09
10 Years After Disappearing in Syria, Freedom Is Elusive for U.S. Journalist
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
There are signs that efforts to free Austin Tice, who disappeared in Syria in 2012 and who the U.S. believes is being held by the Syrian government, are reviving. But his family says the U.S. needs to do more.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Ten years after the American journalist Austin Tice disappeared in Syria as the country descended into a brutal civil war, and was believed to have been held captive by the government of President Bashar al-Assad since, his release still remains elusive.
word count: 1250
archives:
check archive.today for copies of this article.
check archive.org wayback machine for copies of this article.